Knowing how to write a formal letter is a very important life skill. Although a lot of our day-to-day written communication is by email, text message or social media, there are many times you will ...

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Avoid LOLs and emoticons… always. No contractions – Contractions are words that use apostrophes to replace letters. These sound more informal than you want to use in formal letters. For example, write ...